"Of all the days in a calendar year, the dinosaurs went extinct Christmas Eve,
and humans started roaming the earth at 8:30 P.M. on New Year’s Eve."
Geological Text Book Aid – Susan Lewis, Carolle College, Wisconsin.

Grief is carboniferous, all that coral compacted
beneath my feet by the earth’s geological flower press.

The Derbyshire delta unfolds
meadows of cartilage and bone.

To the west, I can see Jodrell Bank,
an upturned bowl listening for a dead star’s pulse.